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the Pacific Coast States were called on to meet uses in Virginia in 

 competition with the eastern woods. They were Douglas fir, West- 

 ern red cedar, and sugar pine. Eleven foreign woods were reported, 

 some of them at high prices. The uses of these foreign and all of 

 the domestic woods will be referred to later on in this report, under 

 the discussions of individual industries. 



Nearly 45 per cent of the wood used by the Virginia manufac- 

 turers was cut from the forests of other States. The principal 

 States and their products are as follows : 



Loblolly Pine North Carolina. 



Shortleaf Pine North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 



Longleaf Pine North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ala- 

 bama and Georgia. 



Red Gum North Carolina and South Carolina. 



Yellow Poplar North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee. 



Red Oak North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee. 



Cotton Gum (Tupelo) North Carolina and South Carolina. 



Hickory North Carolina and West Virginia. 



Chestnut North Carolina and West Virginia. 



Black Gum North Carolina. 



Southern White Cedar. .. .North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. 



Cypress North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. 



Ash Morth Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee. 



White Pine North Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee and 



Lake States. 



Locust North Carolina and West Virginia. 



Sugar Maple Pennsylvania and Lake States. 



Beech West Virginia. 



Sycamore West Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina. 



Sweet Birch West Virginia and Lake States. 



Spruce West Virginia and North Carolina. 



Cottonwood Ohio and Indiana. 



Hemlock West Virginia. 



Dogwood North Carolina. 



Cherry was the most expensive domestic wood, with an average 

 price of $97.40 per thousand board feet. The Pacific Coast woods 

 had the next highest prices and sugar pine led. It was purchased for 

 $68.38. Of the Eastern woods the most expensive was red cedar at 

 $36.48. The price shown for black walnut is surprising. It follows 

 red cedar at an average of $35.85. The cheapest wood was cotton 

 gum, costing $9.65. There is $1.82 difference in the price of cotton 

 gum and black gum. Hemlock is the lowest priced conifer, and white 

 elm next to cotton gum the cheapest hardwood. 



STATE GROWN WOODS. 



Only a little more than one-ihalf of the material used by the 

 Virginia manufacturers was State grown. This does mot mean that 

 the State forests were incapable of furnishing more, because the lumber 

 cut of the Virginia sawmills for 1909 was considerably more than five 



